Pádraic McCormack (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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Question 63: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his views on whether it is appropriate to use his Department's press facility and website to issue a party political statement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16614/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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It is appropriate that statements issued through my Department's Press Office and on its website should relate fully to the business of the Department and that party political statements should be issued through other suitable channels. This is without prejudice to the need for any Minister in office, as occasion may demand, to provide a political defence of the policies and positions of his/her Department.